Improvement in cans for transporting oils, paints



H.EVEBETT.

Improvement in Cans for Transporting Oils, Paints, &c.

N0.131,863. A Patented0ct.1,1872.

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HORACE EVERETT, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

- IMPROVEMENT IN CANS FOR TRANSPORTING OILS, PAINTS, &c.

Specification iorming part of Letters Patent N 0. 131,863, dated October1, 1872.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HORACE EVERETT, of

I the city and county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, haveinvented an Improved Transportation-Gan, of which the following is aspecification:

The object of my invention is to produce a more secure and durable canfor the transportation of oil, 820., than such as are made of metalvessels, made complete, and then in- .closed in a Wooden box. I attainthe desired I A niorepermanent and durable wood-clothed vessel of tin isthus formed for the transporta tion of petroleum and other fluids thanwhen the metal lining and wooden exterior are put together separately.

In the accompanying drawing I have shown my improved transportation-canin pieces, for

will suflice to retain the latter in the proper position. The fourjoints may be soldered after the four sides A A and B B have been nailedor screwed together, after which the metallined wooden bottom D may besecured to its place,'and the four joints presented in the interior ofthe vessel, at the junction of the sides with the bottom, may besoldered. All that now remains to complete the transportationcan is toapply the top, the lining d of which is not attached to the wooden coverE but has its edges turned down to form a flange, which fitsintochannels made in the upper edges of the side linings by bending thesame, and the flanges of the lining d are. soldered in the channel ofthe side linings prior to the application of the wooden cover E, which.is notched at one corner to make way for the tubular proiection m, thelatter forming the mouth of the can.

It will be evident that by this plan of manufacturingtransportation-cans the latter are more homogeneous, perfect, anddurable than when a box is built and secured over a completed tinvessel. It may be said, moreover, that in building a wooden box over acomplete metal can the latter is liable to be distorted and injured, anevil which is avoided by the adoption of my invention.

I claim as my inventionl. Manufacturing transportation-cans by liningthe wooden sides and bottom with tinned plates prior to securing theseparts together, as herein set forth.

2. 'As a new manufacture, a transportationcan constructed in the mannerdescribed.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses. v

HORACE EVERETT. Witnesses:

WM. A. STEEL, HARRY W. DoUTY.

